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7th International Contest-Festival “Renaissance” to be held in GyumriThis year the Contest-Festival “Renaissance” is titled “Against Genocide, Against Wars” and is dedicated to the centennial of the Armenian Genocide. The official opening of the Festival will be held on April 15, in the State Drama Theatre of Vardan Achemyan, Gyumri.
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Joint concert of Philharmonic Orchestra and Marianna Shirinyan before their guest performancesFrom April 11-14, our compatriot Marianna Shirinyan, a famous piano residing in Denmark, will have concerts in Scandinavian countries to commemorate the centennial of the Armenian Genocide. A passage from the concert program was presented to Yerevan audience in the National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet of A. Spendiaryan.
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Government Decision on Memorial days – topic for discussionsIn 2008, the Government of Armenia passed a Decision on considering all Memorial days following major holidays of the Armenian Apostolic Church to be non-working days. It was replaced by the next Saturday. However, during the last seating of the Government, the PM Hovik Abrahamyan announced, that since from January Armenia is a member of European Economic Union, where Saturday and Sunday are non-working days, the replacement of Monday with Saturday might hinder the operations of certain organizations. This decision had caused wide-scale discussions.
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Holy Tuesday at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin“Keep watch, for you don’t know when the Lord will come, or the day and hour”. These are the lines from the Gospel directed as a message of Holy Tuesday during the evening Divine Liturgy”. The message of the day hints about the readiness to the second advent of Christ. The parable on ten virgins from the Gospel of Mathew is read.
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Gospel of Mark 4. 26-34In the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 4, verses 26-34, Christ again talks about the wheat grains, how are they seeded and grow. As soon as the grain is ripe, the Lord puts the sickle to it.
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Gospel of Mark 4. 21-25“Do you bring in a lamp to put it under a bowl or a bed? Instead, don’t you put it on its stand? For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed”.
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Baptism of soldiers in St. Katoghike Church of JrvezhTen soldiers of one of the military units in Yerevan were baptized in St. Katoghike Church of Jrvezh. Deputy Chaplain of the RA Armed Forces performed the baptism. |
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Family Club meeting at Nor Nork Armenian Church Youth Center on the eve of Palm SundayTeacher Board of Nor Nork Youth Center has a Family Club, which brings parents of the youth together every year in a pleasant atmosphere. They talk, exchange opinions and hear the guests.
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Participants of “Brainiest” TV show blessed in St. Sarkis CathedralThe selection round of the intellectual TV show “Brainiest” gave an opportunity to 100 children from Yerevan and marzes for participate. Dozens of them today took part in the Divine Liturgy offered in St. Sarkis Cathedral, the blessing of children, followed by the meeting of the Primate of Ararat Patriarchal Diocese Archbishop Navasard Kchoyan.
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Gospel of Mark 4. 3-9, 13-20The parable of the sower is one of those rare parables which Christ first tells and only then interprets it.
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Armenia to take part in the International Music Festival MIDEMFrom June 5-8, Armenia will participate in the most renowned and representative Music Festival of Europe MIDEM now with state status. The press conference organized on March 18 in Komitas Museum-Institute made this fact public.
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90th anniversary of the National Philharmonic Orchestra of ArmeniaOn March 20, 1925, first concert of the newly-established symphonic orchestra of Armenia was held. Recently, the concert of the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Armenia held in the National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet was dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Symphonic Orchestra.
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